Art Opening: Solaborate II @ Arspace

I’m a little late on posting this, but hey it’s the holidays … Last Thursday night I made it out to the opening of a collaborative art show called “Solaborate II” at arspace. It combined the talents of six very different artists, Brian Barneclo, Helen Bayly, Julia Petho, Rob Racine, Zenaida Sengo and Abe Alvarez-Tostado. They all painted on the same canvases, sometimes together, sometimes alone, sometimes something you painted got covered up, and you’d have to repaint it or move on. In the end they had some pretty wild paintings.

I also got an opportunity to talk to one of the curators of the show, Trevor Ito, who also co-runs the gallery. Trevor says he’s all for a community-based gallery that doesn’t rely on money to make art happen. You should read their statement.

Click “read more” to see picture from the show.

Arspace crew and artist bust a pose in front of one of the collaborative paintings.

There were four big pieces in the show. Each one was a sort of triptych, broken into three canvases.